If enough people are in favor, I will reset all passwords in the database.

Everybody would have to go through the "I forgot my password" procedure, which would be annoying...

if you do decide to go down such an annoying road, you might as well also make all accounts with 0-1 posts deactive (so they have to be activated), then after a year or two you can clear out all the dud accounts.

Then I can obviously see, without the pain of running a program, that the answer is 27552 because a never will have changed. A spam bot still will not be able to see that. Maybe a noob won't either, but at least we won't turn away good coders who don't feel like executing random code.

Then I can obviously see, without the pain of running a program, that the answer is 27552 because a never will have changed. A spam bot still will not be able to see that. Maybe a noob won't either, but at least we won't turn away good coders who don't feel like executing random code.

We are not dealing with spambots... we are dealing with human spammers.

When I had only 1 question on the activation page (when Einstein passed away) I traced a dozen registrations and they all had a 30-60 second delay before getting the answer right, including typos.

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